There is another world, but it is in this one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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